"Magically Gifted Flutist" Mimi Stillman Performs Thursday Night Recital

March 16, 2009

March 16, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. — The Washington Post calls Mimi Stillman "a magically gifted flutist, a breath of fresh air." This Thursday, March 19, DePauw University will present a guest artist recital featuring Stillman at 7:30 p.m. in Thompson Recital Hall of the Green Center for the Performing Arts. The concert will feature works by Telemann, Paganini, Schulhoff, Borne, Debussy, and Bizet. It is presented free of admission charge and the public is invited.

Stillman is internationally acclaimed for performances as a soloist and chamber musician at major concert halls and festivals. Her solo performances include concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Hilton Head Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Orquesta Sinfónica Carlos Chávez (Mexico City), Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Texas Brazos Valley Symphony, Orchestra 2001, and Curtis Chamber Orchestra. She has performed recitals at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, the Kimmel Center, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, and the Verbier Festival. The New York Times opined that Stillman is "technically agile and imaginative in her use of color."

At age 12, Stillman became the youngest wind player ever admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Julius Baker and Jeffrey Khaner and received her bachelor of music degree in 1999. That same year she became the youngest wind player ever to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Stillman received an M.A. in history and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been awarded fellowships from the Earhart and Bradley Foundations.

Stillman has been a featured guest on NPR's Performance Today, WGBH/Boston and WHYY-TV/Philadelphia, is a columnist for the UK's Flutewise magazine and recorded the soundtrack for Kevin Bacon's film Loverboy.

She has recorded one compact disc, Mimi, which drew from her book of arrangements of Debussy songs, Nuits d'étoiles: 8 Early Songs for Flute and Piano, published by the Theodore Presser Company. Stillman is currently working on two new CDs: the world premiere recording of Parabasis, written for her by Jeremy Gill, for Albany Records; and a collaboration with guitarist Allen Krantz on the DTR label.

Mimi Stillman teaches master classes at universities and flute societies, presents lecture recitals, is a published author on music and history, and is devoted to educational outreach. She is the founder and artistic director of the Dolce Suono Chamber Music Concert Series, which since 2005 has presented chamber music concerts in Philadelphia and the region and does educational outreach partnerships in the Philadelphia public schools, all free of charge to the community.

For more information about events, visit the DePauw University School of Music online.

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